考博英语（阅读理解）-试卷83
(总分40, 做题时间90分钟)
peter pan3. Reading Comprehension
Valeta Young, 81, a retiree from Lodi, Calif. , suffers from congestive heart failure and requires almost constant monitoring. But she doesn't have to drive anywhere to get it. Twice a day she steps onto a special electronic scale, answers a few yes or no questions via push buttons on a small attached monitor and press a button that nds the information to a nur's station in San Antonio, Texas. "It's almost a direct link to my doctor," says Young, who describes herlf as computer illiterate but says she has no problems using the equipment. Young is not the only patient who is dealing with her doctor from a distance. Remote monitoring is a rapidly growing field in medical technology, with more than 25 **peting to measure remotely — and transmit by phone, Internet or through the airwaves —
everything from patients' heart rates to how often they cough. Prompted both by the ri in health-care costs and the **puterization of healthcare equipment, doctors are using remote monitoring to track a widening variety of chronic dias. In March, St. Francis University in Pittsburgh, Pa. , partnered with a company called BodyMedia on a study in which rural diabetes patients u wireless gluco meters and armband nsors to monitor their dia. And last fall, Yahoo began offering subscribers the ability to chart their asthma conditions online, using a PDA-size respiratory monitor that measures lung functions in real time and e-mails the data directly to doctors. Such home monitoring, says Dr. George Dailey, a physician at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, "could someday replace less productive ways that patients track changes in their heart rate, blood sugar, lipid levels, kidney functions and even vision. " Dr. Timothy Moore, executive vice president of Alere Medical, which produces the smart scales that Young and more than 10, 000 other patients are using, says that almost any vital sign could, in theory, be monitored from home. But, he warns, that might not always make good medical n. He advis against performing electrocardiograms remotely, for example, and although h
e acknowledges that remote monitoring of blood-sugar levels and diabetic ulcers on the skin may have real value, he points out that there are no truly independent studies that establish the value of home testing for diabetes or asthma. Such studies are needed becau the technology is still in its infancy and medical experts are divided about its value. But on one thing they all agree: you should never rely on any remote testing system without clearing it with your doctor.
1.
cream是什么意思How does Young monitor her health conditions?
A By stepping on an electronic scale.
B By answering a few yes or no questions.
C By using remote monitoring rvice.
D By establishing a direct link to her doctor.
economically
2.
Which of the following is not ud in remote monitoring?
A Car.
B Telephone.
C Internet.
D The airwaves.
3.
whampoaThe word "prompted"(Line 1, Paragraph 3)most probably means______.
A made
B reminded努力奋斗的英文
C aroud
D driven
4.
Why is Dr. Timothy Moore against performing electrocardiograms remotely?
A Becau it is a less productive way of monitoring.
B Becau it doesn't make good medical n.
C Becau it's value has not been proved by scientific study.
D Becau it is not allowed by doctors.
5.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
A Computer illiterate is advid not to u remote monitoring.
B The development of remote monitoring market is rather sluggish.
C Remote monitoring is mainly ud to track chronic dias.
D Medical experts agree on the value of remote monitoring.
Here's the scary thing about the identity-theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40, 000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for tho reports and sold them to a group of 20
thieves at $ 60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising. Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700, 000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number — which can often be found on the Web — is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. **panies make $1.3 trillion annually and lo less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more cure. As it stands now, it's up to you to protect your identity. The good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go Dumpster diving for tho millions of "pre-approved" credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later. But the most effective way to keep your identity clean is to check your credit reports once or twice a year. There are three major credit-report outfits:
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Equifax(at equifax. com), Trans-Union(www. transunion. com)and Experian(experian. com). All allow you to order reports online, which is a lot better than wading through voice-mail hell on their 800 lines. Of the three, I found TransUnion's website to be the cheapest and **prehensive — laying out state-by-state prices, rights and tips for consumers in easy-to-read fashion. If you're lucky enough to live in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachutts, New Jery or Vermont, you are entitled to one free report a year by law. Otherwi it's going to cost $ 8 to $ 14 each time. Avoid rvices that offer to monitor your reports year-round for about $70; that's $10 more than the going rate among thieves. If you think you're a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-**panies. You can also download a theft-report form at www. consumer. gov/idtheft, which, along with a local police report, should help when irate **e knocking. Just don't expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught.
6.
What is the trend of credit-theft crime?
A Tightly suppresd.
B More frightening.
C Rapidly increasing.
D looly controlled.
question是什么意思7. 信息与计算科学考研方向
The expression "inside job"(Line 6, Paragraph 1)most probably means______.
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A a crime that is committed by a person working for the victim
B a crime that should be punished verely
C a crime that does great harm to the victim
D a crime that pos a great threat to the society
8.
The creditors can protect their identity in the following way except______.
A destroying your junk mail
B leaving your Social Security card at home
C visiting the credit-report website regularly
D obtaining the free report from the government
9.
Why is it easy to have credit-theft?
A More people are using credit rvice.
B The application program is not safe enough.
C Creditors usually disclo their identity.
D Creditors are not careful about their identity.
10.
What is the best title of the text?仪式英文
A The danger of credit-theft
B The loss of the creditors
C How to protect your good name
D Why the creditors lo their identity
A white kid lls a bag of cocaine at his suburban high school. A Latino kid does the same in his inner-city neighborhood. Both get caught. Both are first-time offenders. The white kid walks into juvenile court with his parents, his priest, a good lawyer and medical coverage. The Latino kid walks into court with his mom, no legal resources and no insurance. The judge lets the white kid go with his family; he's placed in a private treatment program. The minority kid has no such option. He's detained. There, in a nutshell, is what happens more and more often in the juvenile court system. Minority youths arrested on violent felony charges in California are more than twice as likely as their white counterparts to be transferred out of the juvenile justice system and tried as adults, according to a study relead last week by the Justice Policy Institute, a rearch center in San Francisco. Once they are in adult courts, young black offenders are 18 times more likely to be jailed and Hispanics ven times more likely than are young white offenders. "Discrimination against kids of color accumulates at every stage of the justice system and skyrockets when juveniles are, tried as adults," says Dan Macallair, a co-author of the new study. "California has a double standard: throw kids of color behind bar
s, but rehabilitate white kids ****parable crimes. " Even as juvenile crime has declined from its peak in the early 1990s, headline grabbing violence by minors has intensified a get-tough attitude. Over the past six years, 43 states have pasd laws that make it easier to try juveniles as adults. In Texas and Connecticut in 1996, the latest year for which figures are available, all the juveniles in jails were minorities. Vincent Schiraldi, the Justice Policy Institute's director, concedes that "some kids need to be tried as adults. But most can be rehabilitated. " Instead, adult prisons tend to brutalize juveniles. They are eight times more likely to commit suicide and five times more likely to be xually abud than offenders held in juvenile detention. "Once they get out, they tend to commit more crimes and more violent crimes," says Jenni Gainsborough, a spokeswoman for the Sentencing Project, a reform group in Washington. The system, in esnce, is training career criminals. And it's doing its worst work among minorities.
